Rolla gears up for 105th annual St. Pat’s celebration

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By Staff Reports

The Rolla Daily News - Rolla, MO

By Staff Reports

Posted Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:15 AM

By Staff Reports
Posted Feb. 27, 2013 at 9:15 AM

Rolla

Festivities for the 105th annual “best ever” St. Pat’s celebration are ready to begin at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The theme for this year’s celebration is “St. Pat’s in Outer Space.”

The campus celebration began in 1908, when a group of Rolla students declared that St. Patrick was the patron saint of engineers. St. Pat’s has since grown to encompass a full week of events, as well as campus traditions that begin in early March.

The schedule for the St. Pat’s celebration at Missouri S&T is as follows:

Monday, March 4, through Thursday, March 7: Snake Invasion (students club plastic snakes on campus with large decorative sticks called shillelaghs).

Saturday, March 9: the Coterie St. Pat’s Ball, including a four-course dinner and dancing to live music, 5:30 p.m. in the St. Pat’s Ballroom of the Havener Center. Contact Dilek Acar at dilek@rollanet.org for more information.

Monday, March 11: St. Pat’s Follies, noon at the Puck, a campus landmark located in front of Toomey Hall.

Tuesday, March 12: St. Pat’s Follies, noon at the Puck.

Wednesday, March 13: At approximately 11:45 a.m., St. Pat, portrayed by an S&T student, and his court will officially arrive in downtown Rolla aboard the traditional manure spreader. They will then proceed from the south end of Pine Street to the Rolla Band Shell for St. Pat’s Follies at noon; S&T student Blarney Bash carnival, 8 p.m. at the Gale Bullman Muti-Purpose Building, Student Recreation Center.